Wealthy car owners from Middle East descend on Britain's big city to show off their wheeled wonders – at the eye-watering cost of £20,000

This gold supercar is the ultimate motor for a wealthy show-off – and it's just one of many mind-bogglingly expensive sets of wheels that have clogged up the streets of London this month.

This Ferrari 458 Spider wrapped with gold vinyl is worth a bank-busting £200,000 and is owned by Iraqi former world kickboxing champ Riyadh Al-Azzawi.

The Italian supercar – which can reach a floppy-faced top speed of 199mph – is just one of a flood of foreign-owned sports cars and 4x4s cramming into the capital's busy streets.

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The parade of power-packed cars is becoming an annual event in plush Knightsbridge and posh Kensington as mega-rich Arabs flee the Middle East's baking-hot summer – paying £20,000 return to fly over their treasured transport.

London has again witnessed a boom in Lamborghinis, Ferraris and Bugattis as weathly Qataris, Saudis, Emiratis and Kuwaits swap the desert for Britain following the end of Ramadan.

Another spotted by car-lovers in the rammed roads of London was a brown Bugatti with a Qatar number plate reading '77777'. The posh plate – an important status symbol in the Middle East – is worth a wallet-burning £80,000 while the car retails for an estimated £120,000.

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Others seen on the streets this month include a £300,000 Lamborghini Aventador, a £400,000 six-wheeled Mercedes G63 AMG and a £150,000 Maserati Gran Turismo.

An army of supercar spotters – the 'Carparazzi' – also descend on London at this time of year, sharing their selfies with the dream wheels on social media.

But no-one has yet spotted the ultimate tick-off. In 2013, one of the rarest cars in the world was spied parked outside the £550-a-night Dorchester Hotel – an ultra-exclusive £1million black and gold convertible Bugatti Veyron capable of a staggering 252mph.